Consistent and Secure Policy Defaults

Summary¶ The OpenStack community is seeking contributors to the Secure Policy Defaults initiative. This ongoing initiative aims to provide set of common roles that will enable secure enforcement of authorization policies across OpenStack projects and deployments. Business Case¶ Supporting consistent and secure default RBAC configuration in OpenStack provides the best means to secure your organization’s… Continue reading Consistent and Secure Policy Defaults

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Quality Assurance Developers

Summary¶ The OpenStack community is seeking developers with a background in Python, bash shell, or Javascript programming and free software to join the OpenStack QA team. This team is responsible for maintaining and evolving OpenStack’s robust and comprehensive quality assurance tools, which form the backbone of the OpenStack CI pipeline. Attrition due to shifts in… Continue reading Quality Assurance Developers

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Goal Champions

Summary¶ The OpenStack community is seeking coordinators for the work to fulfill our OpenStack-wide Goals. Business Case¶ Organizations who sponsor Goal Champions have someone in-house who understands the upstream decision making and implementation work across services and projects. This in-house expertise can help minimize disruption to downstream products and services and help position timely communications… Continue reading Goal Champions

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Community Infrastructure Maintainer for ELK Services

Summary¶ The OpenStack community is seeking developers and system administrators with a background in maintaining Unix/Linux servers and free software to join the Infrastructure team (TaCT SIG now). This team is responsible for designing, building and maintaining the systems that are used in the day to day operation of the OpenStack project as a whole.… Continue reading Community Infrastructure Maintainer for ELK Services

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Upstream Investment Opportunities

Many companies in the OpenStack community are looking to invest in upstream development of OpenStack, for many reasons: to build expertise within the organisation; to minimise the cost of downstream maintenance by addressing issues at the source; to drive insights gained from serving their customers into the upstream design; to mitigate business risks presented by… Continue reading Upstream Investment Opportunities

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Vision for OpenStack Clouds

Purpose¶ This is a living document. Its purpose is to document the OpenStack community’s vision for the output of the OpenStack project as a whole, as it evolves over time. It is also aspirational, not descriptive, in nature. That is, it describes the OpenStack that the community is committed to working toward, not the OpenStack… Continue reading Vision for OpenStack Clouds

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OpenStack Charm Guide

Charmed OpenStack is an enterprise grade OpenStack distribution that leverages MAAS, Juju, and the OpenStack Charms to simplify the deployment and management of an OpenStack cloud. The OpenStack Charm Guide is the main source of information for the development of the OpenStack Charms. Release notes and support notes are also to be found here. Getting… Continue reading OpenStack Charm Guide

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OpenStack deployments

Lifecycle management Tools and packaging recipes to help install and maintain the lifecycle of OpenStack deployments. Frameworks for lifecycle management Tripleo Deploys OpenStack using OpenStack itself Openstack-helm Deploys OpenStack in containers using Helm Kolla-ansible Deploys OpenStack in containers using Ansible Kayobe Deployment of containerised OpenStack to bare metal Openstack-ansible Ansible playbooks to deploy OpenStack Openstack-charms… Continue reading OpenStack deployments

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OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.

Cloud Infrastructure for Virtual Machines, Bare Metal, and Containers Openstack controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources, all managed through APIs or a dashboard. Beyond standard infrastructure-as-a-service functionality, additional components provide orchestration, fault management and service management amongst other services to ensure high availability of user applications. What is OpenStack? OpenStack is a… Continue reading OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.

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